Bionic Commando: Difference between revisions

* [[Book Ends]]: The game begins with Joe telling the story of a man he met when he was young. It ends with him finishing it, and hoping it will be told for a long time.

** "Damn rookies."

** What's sort of ironic is that the ''[[Worlds of Power]]'' book based on this game is one of the few in the series where people actually died.

** ''Rearmed'' is mostly unchanged in the Japanese version, too, making this somewhat of a [[Recursive Import]].

{{quote| '''Super Joe''': "Spencer! There's no way out! You'll just have to <s>fight</s> [[Precision F-Strike|fuck it]]!"<br />

'''Spencer''': "<s>My pleasure!</s>Umm..." }}

** You supposedly receive the special bazooka at the end of the original NES game, but despite three levels of explaining how powerful it is, it's exactly the same as the rocket launcher you've been carrying since area 5.

* [[Engrish]]: The NES game's engrish is legendary, inspiring a number of [[Me Me|memes]]. ''Rearmed'' makes several humorous references to it.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: In the NES version, the player can abort a mission by pressing Start+A+B simultaneously and return to the map screen. This would've come in handy if you enter a stage without having the proper equipment... if it weren't for the fact that the manual doesn't tell you this. Because of this, many first-time players often reset the game when they enter Area 6 without the Rocket Gun.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: When not angsting about his missing wife or that his country has betrayed him in the most vile way possible, Spencer takes a little too much joy in throwing people off cliffs and shooting them in the head.

* [[Hit Points]]: You start the game as a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]], but by grabbing items that various [[Mooks]] drop, you can gain more hitpoints to start out with, up to a maximum of nine per life if you're dedicated enough to get 300 of them. (Of course, you still die instantly when you fall in one of the game's many [[Bottomless Pits]].)

** No longer the case in ''BCR'' as you get the [[Hit Points]] meter to start. It does get upgraded, but only once.

{{quote| '''Nathan''': Try coming back from that!}}

* [[No Swastikas]]: In the translation, the Nazis were changed to the "Badds", swastikas were removed, and Hitler was renamed Master D. Strangely enough, his dialogue portrait, [[Captain Obvious|which clearly shows Hitler,]] wasn't changed at all.

* [[Not As You Know Them]]: Spencer and Joe in the sequel. In ''spades''.

* [[Nuke'Em]]: BioReign bombs entire Ascension City which is pretty much the game's equivalent to a New York.

* [[Right Hand of Doom]]: The bionic arm, not really noticeable when two pixels wide, was upgraded to a design worthy of a piece of farming equipment in ''Bionic Commando: Rearmed'' and the sequel. [[Rule of Cool|But damn if it isn't cool as hell.]]

* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: The '09 game features an ''anti-tank shotgun'' usually aimed at infantry. The Rearmed shotgun isn't that powerful, though, and mainly used to get swinging again.

** The Xbox sequel has large signs for [[Resident Evil 5|TriCell]] all over Ascension City.

** In ''Rearmed'' There's a challenge run called the "Dragon Run" which is a reference to the Mecha Dragon Boss of ''[[Mega Man 2 (Video Game)|Mega Man 2]]''.